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excellence

[ek-suh-luhns] / ˈɛk sə ləns /


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“But far beyond his on-air excellence, Dan was a better person who welcomed teammates with a smile, a joke, or a word of encouragement, sometimes all three in the same sentence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

"It's an example of how we are rebuilding our core competencies and developing centers of excellence in technical functions instead of continuing to outsource expertise."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Dr Marta Shahbazi was travelling to collect a prize for scientific excellence in Andalusia on 28 October, when her train crashed into another near Urda, south of Madrid, killing 69 people.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The International Monetary Fund has a reputation for visual excellence, and the chart the global agency used to accompany its latest world economic outlook is quite striking.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The sons of Bull Meecham lived with the awareness that they would never match the excellence of their father in athletics.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

It is a film of excellences, never more so than in the performances by Robert De Niro and a remarkable supporting cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

The days after VE Day were perfect for a tragic English opera with an English setting, and its musical excellences were supplemented by a sense of its national significance.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2013

Confirmed admirers of French filmmaking will also find it sparkling with the usual Gallic excellences: subtle underplaying, sharp character drawing, loving attention to significant detail, a shrewd understanding of the overtones to complex human relationships.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tradition is strongly upon them but with annually changing boards of editors their excellences and taste fluctuate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each of these three composers has his individual excellences.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker


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